At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured when their bus crashed into a truck parked on the side of the road in central Egypt on Thursday, reports the governorate of Minya, where the accident took place.

"The driver of the truck had stopped on the side of the road to change a tire when he was hit from behind by the bus" with around fifty passengers on board, said the press release from the governorate 300 kilometers south of the city. Cairo.

Traffic accidents are frequent in Egypt where the roads are often poorly maintained and the rules of the road not respected.

Officially, 7,000 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2020 in the Arab world's most populous country of 103 million.